The drug abstainer |
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| Authors: | Craig J. Forsyth Jing Chen Raymond W. Biggar York A. Forsyth |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Louisiana Lafayette, Picard Center;2. Institutional Research, South Louisiana Community College, Lafayette, LA, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper uses data on tenth graders from the 2016 Caring Communities Youth Survey (CCYS) to examine the lifetime abstainer from drugs. The abstainer has been a part of Life Course Development literature; within each of the several ages of onset models. Using a model which examines the abstainer from each drug and all drugs, the effect of Prosocial Factors (peer and school) are examined. Findings indicate a very low relationship between high protective/prosocial factors and abstaining. The research of Moffitt that there may be several subtypes of abstainers is supported. |
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| Keywords: | Delinquency drug use abstainers poly drug users |
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